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Re:Rails Needs New Governance
on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:44PM (#45307642)
Yes. My takeaway is “I disagree with his politics and therefore he should go.”
Re:Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?
on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:23PM (#42879904)
What do any of those quotes have to do with fascism?
Re:Popular gut probiotic craps out in randomized controlled trial
on Saturday October 05, 2024 @11:19AM (#41750471)
I had the exact opposite experience. when I stopped eating meat I got worse. When I stopped eating vegetables I got better. I’m not saying you shouldn’t eat vegetables, I’m saying your claim isn’t as strong as you think it is and peoples gut issues are different.
Re:Cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana: CBS News investigation
on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:03PM (#38493129)
If you think that's bad, wait until you find out who's mining the metals for the solar panels. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/03/child-la...
Re:Brave Search launches own image and video search
on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:38PM (#36989888)
this is exactly why i switched from ddg to brave
Re:US Army Field Manual on Leadership (1990) [pdf]
on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:21PM (#36924162)
On the flip side, try leading a squad of four soldiers who don’t want to be there. You can’t fire them. You can’t demote them. If you rely on authoritarianism, what happens when they say “No”. Are you going to try to get them arrested court martialed because they refused an order to pick up brass? You’ll be laughed out of command.
You have to motivate them and make them want to get the mission done. It’s far more challenging than any leadership I’ve done in the civilian world.
Re:California vs. social – requires ad revenues to go to journalists
on Friday June 02, 2023 @02:39PM (#36169051)
The impact of Craiglist on the local news media is grossly overlooked.
Re:Eat More Beans. Please
on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:08AM (#35943796)
I think meat sweats are only thing when you have a massive steak and a massive insulin spike from a mound of potatoes or dinner roles.
Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juices and sof...
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @02:51PM (#35878772)
Also a side effect of creating industrial orange juice is the actual flavor is removed and has to be added back.
https://gizmodo.com/dirty-little-secret-orange-juice-is-arti...
Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped ...
on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:37PM (#35877766)
It's not as easy as rezoning. there is significant overhead retrofitting commercial real-estate with the plumbing needed for residential. ( as well as many other changes) It's doable but the right incentives would have to be put in place by the city. However, everything i've seen of the city is their policies are very anti landlords.
--edit-- fixed grammer
Re:California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with hou...
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @12:15PM (#35817813)
I never said it was the top. being 12th out of 50 does make it a high tax state. Also, the high cost of living is not just the lack of housing. There is a massive regulatory burden on all aspects of california life.
Re:California’s population declines, again, as state grapples with hou...
on Thursday May 04, 2023 @10:19AM (#35815753)
When a state increases its expenses every year, it has two choices, grow the tax base or rase the tax rates.
California is already one of the most taxed states and greater increases in tax rates will likely shrink its tax base.
Re:Immune System Cells in the Gut Linked to Stress-Induced Depression
on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @11:49AM (#35358976)
I tried a lot of different ones (over a decade). pendulum and seed both worked the best for me and ended up with seed due to cost.
Re:11 Oregon counties have voted to join Idaho
on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:04PM (#34457079)
notthebee is NOT a parody website, but it is affiliated with the babylon bee which is a parody website.
Re:Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming se...
on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:37AM (#34327463)
Not sure if OP is a male or not but if you are get your testosterone levels checked and if they are low, fix them. I was going through the same thing at the same age. Your milage my vary but that was a complete game changer for all aspects of my life.
Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
on Thursday August 25, 2022 @12:20PM (#32595973)
it was announced in a very political way at a time when everyone was trying to earn social points by supporting the other side. there was no mention of downranking disinformation released by the other side. i had been using ddg since probably 2017 and i switched that day.
Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:50PM (#32588859)
It was announced in a very political way. It came across as signaling that they were “doing there part.”
Re:Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:46PM (#32588390)
I stopped trusting ddg when they said they were going to sensor Russian news. I assume google and other major search engines sensor political issues but I didn’t think ddg would.
Re:Gavin Newsom’s Next Political Test Is an Injection-Site Bill
on Sunday August 21, 2022 @06:04PM (#32544924)
It’s entirely possible to both not waste money on police / prisons and to not have injection zones.
Re:Long term high-fat diet expands waistline and shrinks brain
on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:33PM (#32040332)
Also, in some studies a high fat rat diet is 50% carbs and 50% fat
Re:How San Francisco became a failed city
on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:19AM (#31667743)
Both your statement and the parent statement can be true
Re:Heroku Is Down
on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:28PM (#30184296)
In my recent experience, heroku is still much easier to deploy. I've tried render.com a few times with a pretty basic rails 7 internal app and I haven't been able to get a successfully deploy.
Re:Myocarditis Cases Reported After mRNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccination
on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:28AM (#30101674)
I don't have the numbers to answer this but which groups are getting myocarditis also matters. If covid causes myocarditis in 1 out of 100 people in an age group prone to myocarditis, but mRNA causes myocarditis in 15 out of 1000 people in an age group that doesn't get myocarditis, then then we should be very concerned about the mRNA myocarditis and adjust our policies accordingly.
Again, I made up those numbers and I'm not saying mRNA is worse. My point is that we should take a more nuanced and honest view than "they both cause it" or even "X has a great rate; therefore Y is better"
Re:The big alcohol study that didn't happen
on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:22PM (#28748922)
Yes, a few of my friends and none of them are homeless. Granted the number of drinks they do consume has gone down as we've all become older.
Separately, when I was in the army, and much younger, we all consumed significantly more than 2 drinks day and were still high performers at our job.
Re:94% of English adults have Covid antibodies, ONS data shows
on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:19PM (#28077497)
Herd immunity can also be achieved by the anti-vax people catching the virus. They can develop immunity by being sick instead of getting a shot.
Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
on Saturday July 31, 2021 @11:13AM (#28018813)
That about sums up why I switched from Firefox to brave.
Re:The argument for switching off lights at night
on Sunday July 25, 2021 @07:51PM (#27954037)
I was frequently walking my dogs at night when they made the switch in my town. I noticed I my visibility was greatly reduced because the LED lights were less diffuse. Anything under the lights I could see just fine but a few feet away was under the vale of darkness.
Re:Restaurant workers quit at record rate
on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:06PM (#27897831)
I think realistically it would come down to an increase of 30%. Most of the time, only a small amount of tips show up in taxes and now that it's part of the pay, the employer will also have to pay taxes on the increase.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?
on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:41AM (#27222605)
They are better for calls than music. I didn't find any health risks when i looked into them. Anecdotally my ears feel better since switching to them
Re:Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown
on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:17AM (#22748692)
Could it be that as you become richer, regulations and centralized actions tend to disproportionally benefit you more?